Join Blandina Farley for a very fun and interesting evening this Wednesday at Telegraph Hill Books, 1501 Grant Street at Union Street.

Tania Romanov will be reading from her new book, I Will Be the Woman He Loved. Tania is an absolutely amazing woman, and I've included a bio-bit of her at the bottom. I just ordered her 2022 book San Francisco Pilgrimage

From Blandina:

 "Hi Greg, This is not a tour but what will be a fun & entertaining Free event in North Beach Wednesday Jan 15 ( also my birthday haha)

You & members of the guild and everyone are invited to an evening that includes an incredibly talented, accomplished. interesting, fun & friend/ world traveled author reading from her new book ‘ I Will Be the Woman He Loved’ at Telegraph Hill Books this Wednesday evening at 6:30. 

There will be tasty bites, Prosecco, ( & other beverages) & musicians from Flute World etc

She has a fascinating story as a refugee outside of Trieste, immigrating to the United States is a very young girl in the 1950s , and later putting herself through universities and becoming the first female CEO of three large corporations! She is a great writer & has an amazing story 

Anyhow, I think your members would love it and you too so please tell everyone It starts at 6:30 Wednesday at Grant & Union St and it will be a lot of fun!

(I'm ordering food so if you have any idea of how many people might come, please let me know if you can)

🫶🎶👏

Blandina"

Tania Romanov in conversation with Matthew Félix

Wed Jan 15th 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Telegraph Hill Books, 1501 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA 

Join us for an evening with author Tania Romanov in conversation with Matthew Félix.

The daughter of refugees, an ostracized immigrant, and a white girl at a mostly Black school, Tania Romanov defied the odds. Climbing from public schoolroom to head of the boardroom, she became one of tech’s first women CEOs. Along the way she also found love.

In I Will Be the Woman He Loved, her fourth and most personal and timely memoir yet, Romanov chronicles her search for identity after the end of her trailblazing career and the loss of her soulmate, Harold. Over a two-week walk along England’s Thames Path, Romanov reflects on their love story, world travels, and battle against cancer—reflections that reveal a lifelong fight to be herself.

Revisiting past lives, loves, and lessons, Romanov recounts the challenges of her immigrant childhood and being a successful young woman in a pre-#MeToo, male-dominated workplace. All the while, she struggles to come to terms with a future very different from what she imagined—one in which she must rediscover her love of life and redefine herself yet again.

Tania Romanov Amochaev is the author of Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women (Travelers’ Tales, 2018), Never a Stranger (Solificatio, 2019), a collection of award-winning travel essays, and San Francisco Pilgrimage (Solificatio, 2022). Tania’s work has been featured in multiple travel anthologies, including The Best Travel Writing and The Best Women’s Travel Writing series.

Greg